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RossJarvis:
Thanks for the welcome guys.

This weeks project is a new log store for the neighbour.  Here is Mark 1 which I made about 3 years ago for our house;





It's mainly 2" square pine, with 3" board for the rafters and batten for laying the shingles, which are feather board.  The joints are mainly lap joints with a couple of blind mortice and tenons.  The "floor" is a bit of fencing I had left over from the veggie patch.

I want to do the next one with all traditional mortice and tenons, pegged with dowels.  I'm not sure whether to chop the mortices by hand or unpack the bench morticer from the outhouse (assuming I can find it and dig it out from under the accumulation of other necessary tools!).  I need to rethink the shingles to make them more robust and make slightly less of a hash of all the joints,

I said I'd start tomorrow, but have just remembered I have left tool boxes 1 & 2 in the boot of someone's car who I think has just gone on holiday.  This leaves me two planes down and without my combi' square.  I've also lent my transformer to another friend which means the hand planer is now out of use.  I'm assuming tool box 3 has enough planes and chisels and have remembered that I forgot to resharpen my irons and chisels.

Tonight I'll see what the local wood merchant has in stock and see how well I can pretend to know what I'm doing tomorrow.

I presume I should then move to the wood butchery section of this site to recount the tales of woe during the week :hammer:

krv3000:
hi and welcume

RossJarvis:
Thanks krv3000.

I've opened a thread in the wood and stuff section for anyone interested in the log store.

PekkaNF:
wellcome, we are pretty motley grew :)

I personally don't get the chicken foot pound measurements with all of fudge factors on science or engineering, but if anybody want's to use it on construction or any other brutalist field - fine with me.

Pekka

RossJarvis:
When I'm in the metal workshop, millipedes seem a fine way of measuring  :thumbup: particularly when going down to .01mm and so on.  However, when it comes to wood and bricks the Mighty inch rules, particularly with the quick ability to work in thirds and quarters etc.

I think the Chicken Foot Pound must be a brilliant measure of torque, must be an aeronautical unit :headbang:

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